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Lenovo Yoga 910: A host of excellent upgrades make it a winner

LENOVO’S YOGA 910 is the Yoga 900 (go.pcworld.com/yoga900r) convertible, upgraded—and the result is an incredibly well-rounded ultrabook that addresses all of our complaints from the previous version. That’s a rarity in the tech world.

Not only is the new version more powerful than the previous model, it also now has a much longer-lasting battery, a faster SSD, and a gorgeous edge-to-edge display. It’s not perfect, of course, but it’s darn close.

Lenovo Yoga 910

PROS

• Excellent overall performance

• Superb battery life

• Gorgeous display

CONS

• Awkward webcam placement

• Limited port selection

$1,330

Plenty of Upgrades

The already-capable Yoga 900 got a boost across the board to transform it into the Yoga 910. First and foremost, Lenovo has upgraded the CPU from sixth-generation Intel Skylake chips to the new and improved seventh-generation Kaby Lake () platform, which offers a modest performance boost. The Yoga 910 has just one option for the CPU, the Intel Core i7-7500U, which is a dual-core part with hyper-threading, a base clock of 2.7GHz, and a boost clock of 3.5GHz. It’s paired with 8GB of DDR4/2133 memory, with the option of 16GB if you buy

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